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Which Airline did you interview with? Delta
How many days between invite, interview, and listed availability? 8 weeks invite to interview
Did you include volunteer work in your application? Yes
Did you receive a job offer? Yes
If you did not receive the CJO why do you think you weren’t chosen to continue in the process? N/A
What is your experience? Military
Total Flight Time 2,000-3,000
Total Turbine PIC Time
TPIC 121 hours 0
TPIC Military hours >2000
TPIC 91/135 0
General Overview of Experience Overall this was a good experience. The folks at Delta are extremely nice, welcoming, and professional. They do their best to make it a positive experience. That said, it is extremely stressful. I felt pretty prepared going in but not enough to overcome the nerves. After the JKT, I felt like it was a coin toss as to wether or not I’d make it to day two. Maybe the bar isn’t super high on that particular test, but make sure you study. It was a deciding factor for a member of our group.
How long did you have your application in before you received an invite? 1-6 months
Did you attend a job fair? No
Did you do anything special that triggered the interview invitation? I did the CTP at Delta. Part of that is a priority app review. It’s no joke—got the invite email labout 30 minutes after sending the request for review.
How many internal recs did you have? 3-4
How long was it from the time of your invite to the actual interview? 8 weeks
Did you have any issues with logbooks, application or paperwork? None. Just brought in my green HARM folder. I went over the list they sent a bunch of times to make sure I wasn’t missing anything. Just bring exactly what the ask for without any embellishment (fancy binding, etc) and you will be fine.
How did you prepare for the JKT/COG portion of the interview? RST. Bounced between the prep checklist and the readings and ground school. It was all super helpful. I was feeling relatively comfortable with the topics by the time the interview came around. Despite this, the JKT was not a great experience. The test bank is huge and I didn’t seem to have a lot of questions that I had seen before. Came out super stressed. The rest of the testing is easy. Don’t stress the COG. If you follow the techniques given in RST and read the directions closely it should be fine even without the online trainer.
Technical Test Questions A blur and too many to remember. One stuck out as a particular WTF type question: what design flaw caused the Dehavilland Comet to fail? Had to google that one since I never ran across that in any of my readings.
What was the hardest technical question or content you experienced during the job knowledge test? Again, hard to pinpoint or remember specific questions. My studying was apparently enough to help narrow down answers and pick the right one enough times, but I wish I had known enough to feel good afterwards.
Cog Test As mentioned, read the instructions and take your time on the small practice sessions they give you and you will be fine.
Cog Math Questions Simple addition from a word problem mostly.
HR Questions I had a very nice group folks interviewing me. They have a job to do as far as getting to know you and determining if you will be a good fit at Delta, but they are not confrontational or trying to trip you up. Over half the interview came fro my application. If you have anything negative (busted checks, etc) be prepared to talk about it. Even if everything in your app looks like you walk on water and you never saw a B on a transcript, be prepared to talk about why you’ve done so well. Some of their app questions started to blend into TMAAT type questions and questions about leadership styles and experiences. From there they went into the question bank (literally said, well we better get into the question bank we have here on our iPads). WWYD type questions included: you have a compressor stall enroute, you ran the checklists and things look ok, WWYD? You are on final and there is wind shear reported ahead, WWYD? That one continued on as the Capt wanted to keep going, the you hit wind shear and Capt is fixated, then how do you want to debrief afterwards? For these, or any WWYD questions, they want to see your thought process and decision making. Not that here is a formula, but if you talk about what you are thinking and then come to a reasonable conclusion and execute, it should be ok.
How long prior to the interview did you prepare for the HR portion of the interview? About 3 months. Of course, a whole career of stories and airmanship experience helps. So much of the questioning during the interview comes from your application—if you know your story and can talk about it with confidence, you will do well.
Which HR Prep service did you use and did it help? ECIC. It helped quite a bit in bringing my confidence up and making me think of stories. I did too seminars and the top off. The seminars were great for hearing other folks go through it and jogging memories of similar stories. The top off was invaluable for the confidence boost going in to the interview.
Any additional information you would like to add.
Is there anything you wish you could have done different to prepare you for this process? I wish I had buckled down a little more on the JKT studying. I started to feel comfortable on most of the study areas and slacked off a bit on the end as I was able to pass the RST tests. It is not an easy test though. If I had been able to walk out of there feeling like I had done on, the stress of the whole experience would have been reduced drastically. You can’t control which questions you get, but it’s better to be over prepared and get easy questions than hope to guess lucky on stuff you’ve never seen before.
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